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Walk-Run Workout: Warm-up walking 5 minutes at a brisk pace. Alternate running for one minute at a controlled, moderate effort and follow with three minutes of brisk walking. Example: Run 1 minute - Walk 3 minutes - repeat sequence 6 times for a total of 24 minutes. Cool-down walking 5 minutes at an easy pace. () Include activities that are non-running or walking. If you are new to an active lifestyle and have been inactive, rest on the cross-training days for the first 4 weeks, and then add the cross-training workouts to the schedule for week 5....

Single, and you feel the need to prove to everyone else that you’re okay. In a relationship, and you feel the need to have the most perfect evening ever (which usually puts way too much pressure on what’s often a pretty good thing). Enter cool spiritual guru, best-selling author, and Kundalini teacher Gabrielle Bernstein, who wants you to immediately stop, drop, and just love yourself. “This Valentine’s Day let yourself off the hook through self-forgiveness,” she says....

David J. Ekerdt, director of the University of Kansas Gerontology Center, calls the massive pile of possessions you collect and carry on your winding journey your “material convoy.” Picture a few moving trucks’ worth of supplies that travel with you. When you’re cruising along in a spacious house with a two-car garage and shed, you may not pay much attention to your convoy. But when you need to swerve or steer into a smaller neighborhood, you become well aware of the load....

The new study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found that depression could be detected from smartphone usage—and it’s possibly a better indicator of the condition than one’s own self-assessment. In fact, scientists were able to identify people with depressive symptoms with 87% accuracy, just according to their phone data. (Check out these 6 Surprising Diseases Linked To Depression.) Researchers tracked the smartphone habits of 28 people, ages 19 to 58, for 2 weeks, monitoring their GPS locations and phone usage data through a Northwestern University–created tracking app called Purple Robot....

Hot flashes. Night sweats. Weight gain. A waning sex drive. Tell us something we don’t already know about “the change.” Well, it turns out there are plenty of side effects—and even some upsides—of menopause that few people talk about. “Many women just think of a handful of symptoms when they hear the word ‘menopause,’ " says Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the New York University Langone Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health....

Swing those arms. Turn your walking into a calorie-torching workout by bending your elbows 90 degrees and pumping your arms as you stride. It not only automatically speeds up your pace but helps you burn up to 15% more calories every time you work out. For proper pumping: Trace an arc from your waist to your chest as you swing. Your thumbs should come close to touching your waistband as your elbow goes backward....

Unfortunately, jellyfish aren’t the only stinging creatures in the sea. Stingrays, scorpion fish, and even catfish all have venomous spines. Sea urchins, though not usually venomous, have protruding spines that can pierce beach-goers’ bare feet. All this might make fresh water swimming seem less hazardous. Not necessarily. A dip in a lake could impart an annoying itch. That would be swimmer’s itch—a condition caused by larval flatworms that burrow into the skin and die....

But why exactly do we have food cravings? And what do they mean? First, let’s clear up a big myth. It’s a popular belief that cravings are the result of nutritional shortfalls. Chocolate cravings are often blamed on low levels of magnesium, for example. But most experts say there’s just not enough research to support this idea. “There is very little science-based evidence on food cravings linked to nutritional deficiencies,” says Sharon Palmer, RDN, author of The Plant-Powered Diet....

To Avoid Knee Pain Do: Side-lying Hip Abduction Lie on side, hips and feet stacked and head resting on arm. Raise top leg a few inches. Pulse up and down for 30 seconds. Switch sides. To Avoid Heel Pain Do: Towel Stretch Sit on floor with spine straight, legs extended forward. Wrap towel under balls of feet and hold 1 end in each hand. Flex feet and slowly pull towel closer to torso....

MORE: Shut Up, Finally, and Just Drink Your Coffee Nondairy creamers These guys might just be the worst of the worst. Topping ingredient lists are often corn syrup solids and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, which mimic the mouthfeel of cream, but are way sketchier. Corn syrup essentially equates to sugar and empty calories, while partially hydrogenated oils are just a fancy way of saying trans fats—manmade, artery-clogging, industrially produced fats that have been strongly linked to heart disease and diabetes....

The soy controversy continues with a study published in the journal , which found an association between high tofu intake—a sizable 9 or more times per week, mind you—and an increased risk of cognitive impairment and memory loss. The study analyzed the tofu consumption of 719 Indonesian men and women and put them through a series of memory tests. Those who ate more than 9 servings a week faced greater memory challenges than those who did not....